Sunday, November 29, 2015

When I looked through my blog this morning, I couldn't help but feel like I've shortchanged you guys yesterday. My post on the Amazon Books store was so brief! To make up for it, I went back to the store today to take a couple more photos for y'all.

Instead of price tags, most of the books on the shelf has a review card. I think that's a brilliant move on the part of Amazon because this glowing review of the Pok Pok cookbook almost made me buy the book instead of the one that I went to the store for.

James Beard Winners have a card that states that they are a winner of the award. I guess that's quite clever of Amazon too because everyone likes a winner, right?

My kids love the kids' books section but they are especially drawn to the World of Harry Potter display. They were bummed that the store was sold out of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Illustrated Edition but they didn't have any trouble looking for another book to buy. There was quite a nice selection of books in the bookstore.

An interesting tidbit that I found out about Amazon Books is that it is a non-cash store. The cashier explained that since Amazon is an online company, they don't know how to deal with cash transactions so you can only pay by card in the brick-and-mortar store.

Do you remember that yesterday I told y'all that there are different counters for customers to try out the different Amazon devices? Well, here are some photos of that:

My favorite counter is the one for the Amazon Echo. I *heart* our Alexa and I think I helped sell one of these to one of the customers in the store yesterday because I couldn't stop raving about it to the sales lady. Haha.

Speaking of tablets, I was told that the offer for the $34.99 Fire Tablet ended yesterday but the Amazon Echo is still on sale. The 30% off one book promotion will end on December 1 and you can take advantage of these two deals online too.

If you had missed my first post on the Amazon Books b&m store, just click HERE to read it.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

UPDATE:
I have posted more photos and info in a new post. You can find PART 2: The Amazon Books (brick-and-mortar) Store by clicking HERE.

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Earlier this month Amazon opened its first ever brick-and-mortar store in Seattle. We have been looking forward to visiting and we were so happy that we finally managed to make a quick stop today.

The store isn't very big but it is nice and cozy. As much as we enjoy buying books online, we really love being in a real bookstore. There is nothing like being able to hold and flip through the physical book and bring it home as soon as you pay for it.

Visiting the store this weekend came with an added bonus too- Amazon is having a 30% off one book promotion online and we found out that we can also get the discount in-store. Even better, the discount is good for one per customer (instead of one per Amazon account). The kids were thrilled!

In addition to books, the Amazon bookstore also has a counter for their Kindles, Fire TV, Fire Tablets, and the Amazon Echo for customers to try out the devices.

If you are in the Seattle area, you can find the Amazon Books store in the University Village (behind Din Tai Fung).

If you are not in the Seattle area, you can also take advantage of the current Amazon promotions. Click HERE to get your $34.99 Fire Tablet and click HERE for the coupon code to take 30% off a print book (up to $10 off).

It's Black Friday and I'm all shopped out! Did y'all get the deals that you were after? I was bummed that I missed out on the big bear from Target but still, I was happy that I managed to get in on a few good offers.

Speaking of deals, LD has a super promotion going on right now. Here are the deets:

In other words, you can stack the Buy One, Get One coupon GobbleItUp with their current 75% off Holiday Sale! They have even included their latest Nutcracker Suite Collection in the promotion!